All Quotes

I grew up in a racially mixed neighborhood. So going over to friends' houses for dinner, their parents listened to Al Green and Luther Ingram. It was something that hit me early on, the feeling that came across.
‐‐ Justin Townes Earle

I grew up in a really horrible school system, but my parents did not let that define how we function. They gave me more work at home from them than I ever got from school. To learn about the history of myself and my people, and that armors me.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

I grew up in a really small town: LaGrange, Georgia. There weren't a lot of creative outlets there, so I did local castings.
‐‐ Elijah Kelley

I grew up in a really small town, so it wasn't really a fashion-forward place, and it was very casual.
‐‐ Behati Prinsloo

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just something that was a hobby.
‐‐ Justin Bieber

I grew up in a reform Jewish family in St. Louis. Our idea of Judaism was no bar mitzvahs and a Christmas tree that had a skirt at the bottom embroidered with the names of my grandparents.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

I grew up in a religious community, and like everyone, I went through a period of doubt and later made a conscious choice to embrace the faith of my childhood.
‐‐ Gene Luen Yang

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it. I was going to be a priest; I'm proud of it. And I thank God I believe in God, or I would probably be enormously angry right now.
‐‐ Clarence Thomas

I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music.
‐‐ Mike White

I grew up in a retirement community in Florida.
‐‐ Megan Boone

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.
‐‐ Mekhi Phifer

I grew up in a rural area. I grew up in deep southern middle Tennessee, probably about thirty miles from the Alabama border. There's nothing there, really. And the TV was my link to the outside world. It's what kept me from going into factory employment. It's what made me want to go to college. It was really inspiring.
‐‐ DJ Qualls

I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.
‐‐ Henry Thomas

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
‐‐ Eben Alexander

I grew up in a secular environment, you know, in the '60s and '70s. My mother's family was Catholic, but you know, just very kind of conventionally Catholic. You know, nothing - there was nothing, you know, extreme about their version of religion. And my father was a free spirit, you know? He had no time for religion at all.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.
‐‐ Jesse Eisenberg

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up.
‐‐ James Gray

I grew up in a semi-slum area in Gavipuram, Guttahalli.
‐‐ Shakuntala Devi

I grew up in a show-business family, but we were working-class show business. There was nothing glamorous about it. You had great things one day and the next day, nothing.
‐‐ Sally Field

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents. I've always known what is and isn't reality.
‐‐ Andy Gibb

I grew up in a single-wide, three-bedroom mobile home with my family. And now I see them, like, half a dozen times a year. Figuring out how to come home and talk to them again and feel like myself has probably been the greatest challenge.
‐‐ Brandi Carlile

I grew up in a slum neighborhood - rows of tenements, with stoops, and kids all over the street. It was a real neighborhood - we played kick-the-can and ring-a-levio.
‐‐ Bonnie Bedelia

I grew up in a small farming town called Concord, outside Charlotte in North Carolina.
‐‐ Skeet Ulrich

I grew up in a small hotel with many rooms, so when I became aware of 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' I inspected all the wardrobes, sure one had to be a portal to another world. I was also a true believer in faeries, and perhaps still am.
‐‐ Jo Beverley

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

I grew up in a small Southern town, and there were white people and black people. Coming to New York to go to Columbia, every time I went into the subway I was absolutely astounded because you see people from all over the world who actually live here - who aren't just here as tourists.
‐‐ Tony Kushner

I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

I grew up in a small town, in a small community, and I would not have had access to great plays when I was a kid were it not for the films of 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.'
‐‐ Tracy Letts

I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn't much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.
‐‐ Abbi Glines

I grew up in a small town in Illinois, and my dad was a basketball coach. Thanks to him, I have excellent fundamentals in both basketball and baseball.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.
‐‐ Mira Nair

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.
‐‐ Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Kansas, so I love meeting the fans. Those are the people who spend time out of their day to watch the things that I've done, and I've gotten to do some great supernatural stuff - 'Teen Wolf' and 'The Gates' before that - so it's nice when I get to go to Comic-Con every year.
‐‐ Colton Haynes

I grew up in a small town in northeastern Indiana. I had an all-American childhood. And I grew up as an optimist.
‐‐ Mary Meeker

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.
‐‐ Alek Wek

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.
‐‐ Colleen Atwood

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
‐‐ Brad D. Smith

I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.
‐‐ Carol Bartz

I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism.
‐‐ Leon Krier

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.
‐‐ Kate Bosworth

I grew up in a small town where I went to the movies a lot and fell in love with all these people. I also fell in love with the movie business. So all I saw were actors on the screen so I thought, well, that's what I have to be if I want to be a part of the movie business.
‐‐ Robert Osborne

I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
‐‐ Katee Sackhoff

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.
‐‐ Thomas Peterffy

I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.
‐‐ Jan Koum

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.
‐‐ Cathy Rigby